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Occupational Therapists

Assess, plan, and organize rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.

66 AI exposure
39 Human advantage
70 Market demand
54 AI leverage

Is Occupational Therapists a safe career from AI?

Occupational Therapists scores 66 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 39, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 70 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 14.8% over ten years.

What Occupational Therapists pay

The median wage is $98,340 a year. The lower quarter earns under $80,490 and the upper quarter over $110,460. About 152,280 people do this work in the United States.

Where Occupational Therapists can go next

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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